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>Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League NEW YORK – In the four years since we lost Comedian and Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory, his powerful voice has been missed amid the recent broadening and intensifying […]

Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League This Saturday, July 31st, we remember and celebrate Whitney Moore Young, Jr., on the centennial of his birth. Young served at the helm of the National […]

Terrol Perkins Data News Weekly Contributor When I received my first vaccination shot in March of 2021, I was practically willing to do anything in order to resume my normal life pre-COVID. I, like most, […]

Renée Dugué Co-Founder Reborn and Rising With the heights of heat soaring as we reach our deep Southern summer, I’m reminded of life in The Desire, and somebody saving us from sweltering by opening the […]

Terrol Perkins Data News Weekly Conbributor Every summer, Americans of all colors and creeds celebrate the day that the United States formally declared independence from Great Britain on July 4th. For it was on this […]

Renée Dugué Co-Founder Reborn and Rising How apropos is it this year that we celebrate Juneteenth as the sun, which exudes masculine energy, is rising at its highest, and then Father’s Day on the first […]

Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League NEW YORK – This week marks the beginning of Pride Month, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, a turning point in the movement for LGBTQ rights. […]

Data News Staff Edited Report In these times of being “woke” and where calls for justice and equality are being heard all over America; a great book explores the Tulsa Riot of 1921. It was […]